That something, could simply be Verizons doing because the folks I know all have given up on Youtube and are frustrated with its performance lately. I can say that it has started in the past 6 months, maybe even longer.
It has become so annoying, that everytime I hope Youtube works right, it doesnt.
Youtube used to load up ridiculously fast 2 years ago.
Having 25mb/25mb Fiber on Fios, is great, until you go to Youtube.
Youtube has become so slow, most videos only partially load after 10 minutes, if they load at all. If you refresh a few times, you might get lucky and actually get an SD video to stream...
Youtube sucks.
You know why? Because their advertisements stream just fine! They're fast as lightning... but when they finish, and the video that you wanted to watch, should start streaming away.... It fucking dies like a grandma climbing a mountain.
Youtube fucking sucks.
This experience has been confirmed by several Fios users, and others around the web.
The days of going to Youtube, and having a video play... are fucking over.
Metacafe streams just fine... Vimeo... no problemo...
Youtube... is a fucking crap shoot... but their advertisements are lightning fast!!!!! OH BOY.
C'mon. Do you really think Microsoft's cheap knock offs, have any impact on the industry? Everything microsoft makes that is a copy of someone else's successful ideas.... fails and becomes completely irrelevant and goes unnoticed.
Microsoft is so fucking pathetic. Everyone at microsoft should burn Balmer's office and kick him out.
Every thing anounced by Microsoft as of late, is a copy of Apple's success. We all know how well ZUNE did... (rolls eyes)
I'm just tired of Microsoft coming to the table late and when they finally do execute their copy, its a giant failure. Why?
You have to first microsoft. You cant be second. So my advice is give up. Give up on ipad, ipod, google, app store, itunes, apple store, iphone... give it all up. You failed, you cant come in and copy them, because you do not have the company image that inspires anyone giving a damn about your cheap knock offs.
Do you realize how boring and unineresting it is, for you (microsoft) to annouce that you're taking on the ipad? Big deal. The ipad exists already. The best you could even possibly do, is create a tablet that has touch input. Great. Big deal. You're LATE. You can not wow everyone by being second.
So give it all up. STOP.
Start over. Figure out new ideas, and end this pathetic knock off strategy. It just makes your company look like a company that makes really bad copies of popular products, and everyone knows exactly what you are, and that is why your pathetic attempts at copying other people, always fail.
"If you've nothing to hide...... you've nothing to be afraid of."
Thats what the police and government want us to believe because it makes their job easier, and their abuses of power are hidden away from the public.
It really is funny how the police and government cover up everything they do wrong, but want to know everything you do.
Filming a police officer should be completely legal. As long as they have power over us, and we pay their wages... We have every right, like a boss would, to review their on the job behavior.
Actually, I'm happy to admit I'm wrong. I wasnt aware of the version 6 on the dev channel, because I had no idea the dev channel existed!
When you go to DL Chrome, there is the official version and the beta version... Who the hell knew there was a public "DEV" version also, which is a point version newer!?
The dev channel version doesnt even show up if you google chrome. It doesnt even come up if you google "chrome 6".
I had to dig to find it. I found a link off a news site somewhere that i found.
So, yes.. now Chrome 6, DEV channel version blocks ads properly.
Great, now can them add a real bookmark manager that even comes close to firefox? Chrome still does not have color mangement. Granted firefox's color management sucks too.
Safari has great color management, but.. its safari. yuck
Chrome has promise... but its still a diamond in the rough. Firefox still has the features and functionality.
Well well, look at that. Apparently its only for Chrome 6 though. Which is only available in the dev channel releases.
Big deal, you cleaned the cum off your keyboard enough to write something informative. Congrats on that, now please, go back to servicing your fathers cock.
Oh and your baby... I kicked it's face in, after i fucked it to death.
Chrome is nice, but firefox scrolls smoother, renders faster as it scrolls and displays. Chrome still lacks real ad blocking capabilities, as it still downloads the ad in the background, but it doesnt not display it. Firefox has color management, albeit broken and not up to date color management, but it still has color management. Chrome displays images without any color management which really screws with anyone who cares to display their images properly. Safari has the best color management, but its safari... yuck.
Firefox is still better in general overall. Chrome could be a winner in the long run though... but right now.. Firefox is still where I do my browsing.
I find that firefox performs better on older pc's as well. Chrome tends to really eat cpu.
I'm glad you filmed this because one day you can say "No, Doc, I dont know how I could have developed lung cancer, I dont smoke... but I did make this burning iPhone video, check it out"
You mentioned you do a lot of photography. Do you use a wacom tablet? Do you carry it around with you? I use a fairly large one, larger than a laptop itself... I cant imagine dragging it around, or using it on a desk with a laptop. Doesnt the screen get in the way, if you hook it up to a larger monitor?
To me a laptop will never be a workstation.
I agree though, especially if you're a photographer, which i am as well... A laptop is very helpful, especially on remote shoots. Its helpful in many situations when you're away from your workstation.
I've not found a laptop that could replace a workstation on performance, options or comfort factor.
As for my statement about doing 3d aniamtion. Its true many wont do what I do, but most of the people in my field work on machines that would be considered high end gaming PCs. So if you like games, you would probably have a similar machine. Granted people wont be sculpting millions of polygons like me, but the games they play require as much power as they can get.
And your right, not everyone will need a high performance desktop. If you run iTunes, you need a supercomputer though. The thing is a slow piece of shit:)
Sorry, had to take a shot at that disaster of a program. Its so slow.
Anyways, all i'm saying is, the desktop isnt going away. It is here to stay forever. Laptops will also be around forever. Both are designed to fit specific usage goals. The difference is a laptop has to make compromises to meet the goal of being portable. That limits it from ever being better than a good desktop.
It may certainly do just fine for many people... but it also will always fall short for those who need more.
Laptops are not performance machines. They will never replace desktops.
Does your laptop have a fast 2 TB Raid?
Does it have a fiber channel connection to a raid box?
Does it have the most powerful GPU you can buy? Does it have SLI GPUs?
I do 3d character animation and special fx professionally. I also game, and make games... I'm a photographer as well, I also edit video...
There is just no way a laptop is going to replace a desktop for me, or any other power user, which means just about every gamer there is... and anyone interested in anything more than browsing and IM'ing people pictures of their dicks:)
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I actually have already invented this. But I'm such a cunt... I'm keeping it to myself.
Verizon is crippling Youtube bandwidth on FIOS.
Verizon is guilty of extortion. They are holding the user hostage, and forcing google to pay up to protect their brand.
Meanwhile, the FIOS subscriber, such as myself, finally have an answer as to why Youtube hasnt fucking worked for a year now.
Verizon FIOS... has just lost its sainthood.
If you value youtube, and use it... Do not subscribe to Verizon FIOS.
Verizon has made Youtube unusable on FIOS.
This is the first time i've ever had anything negative to say about FIOS. Verizon should be fucking ashamed.
I and other FIOS subscribers cant even download SD videos on Youtube. Its so slow, its worthless.
Verizon is guilty of extortion.
That something, could simply be Verizons doing because the folks I know all have given up on Youtube and are frustrated with its performance lately. I can say that it has started in the past 6 months, maybe even longer.
It has become so annoying, that everytime I hope Youtube works right, it doesnt.
Youtube used to load up ridiculously fast 2 years ago.
and I'll add...
Fuck you Verizon for holding your paying customers hostage, if you're throttling youtube, just to get money from Google.
Having 25mb/25mb Fiber on Fios, is great, until you go to Youtube.
Youtube has become so slow, most videos only partially load after 10 minutes, if they load at all. If you refresh a few times, you might get lucky and actually get an SD video to stream...
Youtube sucks.
You know why? Because their advertisements stream just fine! They're fast as lightning... but when they finish, and the video that you wanted to watch, should start streaming away.... It fucking dies like a grandma climbing a mountain.
Youtube fucking sucks.
This experience has been confirmed by several Fios users, and others around the web.
The days of going to Youtube, and having a video play... are fucking over.
Metacafe streams just fine... Vimeo... no problemo...
Youtube... is a fucking crap shoot... but their advertisements are lightning fast!!!!! OH BOY.
oh shut up. Freedom is for the wealthy elite, and slavery is for the rest.
Did Zune lower the price of ipods?
C'mon. Do you really think Microsoft's cheap knock offs, have any impact on the industry? Everything microsoft makes that is a copy of someone else's successful ideas.... fails and becomes completely irrelevant and goes unnoticed.
Microsoft is so fucking pathetic. Everyone at microsoft should burn Balmer's office and kick him out.
Every thing anounced by Microsoft as of late, is a copy of Apple's success. We all know how well ZUNE did... (rolls eyes)
I'm just tired of Microsoft coming to the table late and when they finally do execute their copy, its a giant failure. Why?
You have to first microsoft. You cant be second. So my advice is give up. Give up on ipad, ipod, google, app store, itunes, apple store, iphone... give it all up. You failed, you cant come in and copy them, because you do not have the company image that inspires anyone giving a damn about your cheap knock offs.
Do you realize how boring and unineresting it is, for you (microsoft) to annouce that you're taking on the ipad? Big deal. The ipad exists already. The best you could even possibly do, is create a tablet that has touch input. Great. Big deal. You're LATE. You can not wow everyone by being second.
So give it all up. STOP.
Start over. Figure out new ideas, and end this pathetic knock off strategy. It just makes your company look like a company that makes really bad copies of popular products, and everyone knows exactly what you are, and that is why your pathetic attempts at copying other people, always fail.
"If you've nothing to hide... ... you've nothing to be afraid of."
Thats what the police and government want us to believe because it makes their job easier, and their abuses of power are hidden away from the public.
It really is funny how the police and government cover up everything they do wrong, but want to know everything you do.
Filming a police officer should be completely legal. As long as they have power over us, and we pay their wages... We have every right, like a boss would, to review their on the job behavior.
The iPhone will lose if Apple continues to treat customers the way it currently does.
Microsoft, stop copying what apple does, and start doing it FIRST.
The ideas are all out there. You just need the balls, marketing and design to pull it off.
Its not iAds, its iSPAM.
As long as chrome has terrible bookmark management... Firefox will be first choice for me
Actually, I'm happy to admit I'm wrong. I wasnt aware of the version 6 on the dev channel, because I had no idea the dev channel existed!
When you go to DL Chrome, there is the official version and the beta version... Who the hell knew there was a public "DEV" version also, which is a point version newer!?
The dev channel version doesnt even show up if you google chrome. It doesnt even come up if you google "chrome 6".
I had to dig to find it. I found a link off a news site somewhere that i found.
So, yes.. now Chrome 6, DEV channel version blocks ads properly.
Great, now can them add a real bookmark manager that even comes close to firefox? Chrome still does not have color mangement. Granted firefox's color management sucks too.
Safari has great color management, but .. its safari. yuck
Chrome has promise... but its still a diamond in the rough. Firefox still has the features and functionality.
Just saying... they better be.
I'm guessing now this makes our hdtv's worthless, as well as our home receivers if we want to use these new features.
Well well, look at that. Apparently its only for Chrome 6 though. Which is only available in the dev channel releases.
Big deal, you cleaned the cum off your keyboard enough to write something informative. Congrats on that, now please, go back to servicing your fathers cock.
Oh and your baby... I kicked it's face in, after i fucked it to death.
Your wife is dead.
Hitler.
Chrome has no real ad block functionality.
All of the performance of chrome goes out the window, when you realize this.
Chrome is nice, but firefox scrolls smoother, renders faster as it scrolls and displays. Chrome still lacks real ad blocking capabilities, as it still downloads the ad in the background, but it doesnt not display it. Firefox has color management, albeit broken and not up to date color management, but it still has color management. Chrome displays images without any color management which really screws with anyone who cares to display their images properly. Safari has the best color management, but its safari... yuck.
Firefox is still better in general overall. Chrome could be a winner in the long run though... but right now.. Firefox is still where I do my browsing.
I find that firefox performs better on older pc's as well. Chrome tends to really eat cpu.
I'm glad you filmed this because one day you can say "No, Doc, I dont know how I could have developed lung cancer, I dont smoke... but I did make this burning iPhone video, check it out"
Dont buy into APB. Let it flop, so that we can stop this trend in gaming.
You mentioned you do a lot of photography. Do you use a wacom tablet? Do you carry it around with you? I use a fairly large one, larger than a laptop itself... I cant imagine dragging it around, or using it on a desk with a laptop. Doesnt the screen get in the way, if you hook it up to a larger monitor?
To me a laptop will never be a workstation.
I agree though, especially if you're a photographer, which i am as well... A laptop is very helpful, especially on remote shoots. Its helpful in many situations when you're away from your workstation.
I've not found a laptop that could replace a workstation on performance, options or comfort factor.
As for my statement about doing 3d aniamtion. Its true many wont do what I do, but most of the people in my field work on machines that would be considered high end gaming PCs. So if you like games, you would probably have a similar machine. Granted people wont be sculpting millions of polygons like me, but the games they play require as much power as they can get.
And your right, not everyone will need a high performance desktop. If you run iTunes, you need a supercomputer though. The thing is a slow piece of shit :)
Sorry, had to take a shot at that disaster of a program. Its so slow.
Anyways, all i'm saying is, the desktop isnt going away. It is here to stay forever. Laptops will also be around forever. Both are designed to fit specific usage goals. The difference is a laptop has to make compromises to meet the goal of being portable. That limits it from ever being better than a good desktop.
It may certainly do just fine for many people... but it also will always fall short for those who need more.
Right, the more people use it, the more data is required.
But, if more people are using it, doesn't that mean verizon has more premium subscribers than before?
If they could afford the data requirements for the lower user base, they should certainly be able to afford it for a larger one.
Laptops are not performance machines. They will never replace desktops.
Does your laptop have a fast 2 TB Raid?
Does it have a fiber channel connection to a raid box?
Does it have the most powerful GPU you can buy? Does it have SLI GPUs?
I do 3d character animation and special fx professionally. I also game, and make games... I'm a photographer as well, I also edit video...
There is just no way a laptop is going to replace a desktop for me, or any other power user, which means just about every gamer there is... and anyone interested in anything more than browsing and IM'ing people pictures of their dicks :)